Hello there students, my name is Bernard Weiner I was born in September 28,1935. I attended the University of Chicago where I received my [[#|undergraduate degree]] in Liberal Arts in 1955 and an MBA, majoring in Industrial Relations, from the same university in 1957.
Following two years of service in the U.S. Army, I enrolled in a PhD program in personality at the University of Michigan,where I was mentored by John Atkinson, one of the leading personality and motivational psychologists of that era.
I completed my PhD from Michigan in 1963, then spent the following two years as an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota. Afterwards I joined the [[#|psychology]] faculty at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1965, where I remained active into the early 2000s.
I'm a social [[#|psychologist]]. I developed what is called Attribution Theory in 1974.
Basically my theory assumes that people try to determine why people do what they do, attribute causes to behavior. A person seeking to understand why another person did something may attribute one or more causes to that behavior.
In more detail it's a three-stage process underlies an attribution: (1) the person must perceive or observe the behavior, (2) then the person must believe that the behavior was intentionally performed, and (3) then the person must determine if they believe the other person was forced to perform the behavior (in which case the cause is attributed to the situation) or not (in which case the cause is attributed to the other person).
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Hello there students, my name is Bernard Weiner I was born in September 28,1935. I attended the University of Chicago where I received my [[#|undergraduate degree]] in Liberal Arts in 1955 and an MBA, majoring in Industrial Relations, from the same university in 1957.
Following two years of service in the U.S. Army, I enrolled in a PhD program in personality at the University of Michigan,where I was mentored by John Atkinson, one of the leading personality and motivational psychologists of that era.
I completed my PhD from Michigan in 1963, then spent the following two years as an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota. Afterwards I joined the [[#|psychology]] faculty at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1965, where I remained active into the early 2000s.
I'm a social [[#|psychologist]]. I developed what is called Attribution Theory in 1974.
Basically my theory assumes that people try to determine why people do what they do, attribute causes to behavior. A person seeking to understand why another person did something may attribute one or more causes to that behavior.
In more detail it's a three-stage process underlies an attribution: (1) the person must perceive or observe the behavior, (2) then the person must believe that the behavior was intentionally performed, and (3) then the person must determine if they believe the other person was forced to perform the behavior (in which case the cause is attributed to the situation) or not (in which case the cause is attributed to the other person).
Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Weiner
http://www.instructionaldesign.org/theories/attribution-theory.html